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"Alii multa perficiunt: nos nonnulla conamur:
Illi possunt: nos volumus."

If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.-Cowper.

AMHERST:
PUBLISHED BY THE EDITORS.

PRINTED BY J. S. AND C. ADAMS.

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"Oak Openings,"

Orphics,

Poetical Imagery,

Prolegomena,

Reality, the basis of the Ideal,

Recollections of Quodville,

Reverie,

The Sentimental,

Sketch of New A-

Sunset in Amherst,

Thunder Storm in the Connecticut Valley,

Vindication of the Legal Profession

A Vision, and a certain conversation held therein concerning

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VOL. I.

THE INDICATOR.

JUNE, 1848.

No. 1.

PROLEGOMENA.

In presenting to the public the first number of this our INDICATOR, some few words, by way of preface, will naturally be expected of those to whom its management has been committed,-stating at least the motives in which it has had its origin, and the plan upon which it is proposed to conduct it.

We are aware that a general distrust of periodical literature is fast gaining ground in this country; and it must be confessed that this sentiment is too well supported by the character of much of the trash with which the press daily, weekly, or monthly teems.

The country is indeed flooded with reviews and magazines of all kinds—they form the distinguishing feature of our literature-and among them there are doubtless some of positively pernicious tendency, and very many of no moral or literary value. Yet even if these formed, as some rashly assert, a majority of the whole, it would be no good reason for condemning that department of literature as universally worthless or corrupting. There are at least some few on which we may safely rely to prove the contrary. If indeed we expect reviews and magazines, even when best conducted, to form for us without other aid, scholars, and statesmen, and distinguished proficients in any department, we shall be at once and deservedly disappointed. Such is not their office. For service like this we must seek more imposing volumes, that require hard and persevering toil to master them. We willingly acknowledge that not all the periodicals of the country would ever make one accurate scholar or profound thinker. But it is in the highest degree unjust, to infer from this, as many do, that they are only a waste of time. They have their own

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